“I was immediately drawn to Mitchell,” said Jesse Tyler Ferguson in a 2011 interview with Out magazine, “but they really only wanted to see me for Cameron.” Cameron Tucker, Mitchell’s husband — ultimately played by Eric Stonestreet — does seem an odd fit for Ferguson. Perhaps it is because we are so used to seeing him as the meticulous, somewhat uptight environmental lawyer Mitchell, more in need of being balanced out by his partner, the outlandish and fun-loving music teacher Cameron.
But it didn’t take showrunners long to realize that Ferguson’s own instincts were correct. “So I went in and read for Cameron,” Ferguson continued, “and halfway through they stopped me and said, ‘You’d be a really good Mitchell, actually.'” Ferguson also recounted how most of the rest of the cast really saw Stonestreet as a perfect fit to play Cam.
Rightly so. Stonestreet’s portrayal, veering between eccentricity and sensitivity, flamboyance and loyalty, is simply too synonymous with Cam. Even Cam’s clown alter-ego Fizbo -– infamously disliked by Mitchell –- was based on Stonestreet’s own creation, right down to the name itself. Can you imagine Ferguson as Fizbo? Yeah, we can’t either.
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